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Yesterday's* action by the House * rnmijttee on appropriations, in * ? dopting a "limitation" upon the District appropriation bill, which in effect repeals the half-and-half provision of tlie organic act of 1878, reproduces the situation of last spring when an identical provision wat placed in the bill after it had reached the House. The appropriating clause adopted yesterday by the committee which follows, is in the same language as that of the Gard amendment which the House accepted May 1 last Appropriating Clause. "The following sums are appropriat? -1 out of the revenues of tlie District < ? Columbia to the extent that they :iro sufficient therefor, and the remainder out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, but the amount to be paid from the Treasury of the United States shall in no eyent be as rtvuch as one-half of : aid expenses, in full for the following expenses of the government of itie District of Columbia for tlie fiscal year ending June ?0, 19:20, except amounts to pay tlie interest and sinking fund on the funded debt of said District, of which amounts one-hall is appropriated out of any monoy in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated and the other half out of the revenues of the District of Columbia." Fourth Attack in Four Years. This is the fourth time in about four years that the House or a House committee has undertaken to destroy the half-and-half principle. In December, 1911. it adopted by a vote of 187 to 100 the so-called Johnson rider, which provided for the payment of tlie expenses of the District out of the District revenues to the extent that they were "available." the balance to be paid out of the Treasury. The Senate later, by a vote of 4t> to 20, rejected this rider and the conferees sustained the action of the Senate. In 1910 an amendment was offered in the House virtually to the same fleet, providing for the payment of the district's expenses out of District revenues to the extent" that they were "sufficient," the "remainder" to be paid out of the Treasury. This was adopted by the Ifouse by a vote of 177 to 1 and was rejected by the Senate, 4 7 to 10, the Senate's action being sustained by the conferees. X?ast May's Action. kast May, when the House received the District bill appropriating for the now current fiscal >eai\ it carried the usual half-and-half provision. Representative Hard offered his amendment in precisely the terms of that offered in 1916 and it was adopted in committee of the whole without a roll call. And the bill thus amended passed the House, also without a roll call. JThe Senate struck out the Card amendment and after a iong delay in conference, which carried the measure considerably beyond the beginning of the new fiscal year, it was finally passed in conformity with the organic, act. making the appropriations upon the half-and-half basis. Opposition Is Foreseen. This is the first time that the appropriation committee of the House has undertaken to repeal by indirection the fundamental principle of the * organic act. It is understood that the action of the committee was not unanimous, but was opposed by some members on the ground that an appropriation bill was not the proper \ehicle for so important an item of general legislation, a radical change n the basic met boa 01 in strict mr.iniei.anco. It is believed to be assured *hat this action of the committee will be opposed on the floor of ths House. Report of Board of Trade Committee Protesting the Repeal of Half-and-Half Plan la this connection action ta!ten by the "Washington Hoard of Trade May -.3. 1916. when a precisely similar situation existed, applies directly tc the case created by the House committee's present innovation. That meeting called specifically to deal with The menace to the organic act principle. and a report prepared by a special committee on fiscal legislation was inanimously adopted. In part, as idlows: To leave undone the things legislative which ought not to be done is as vitally important as to do that whicli ?>ught to be done. What legislation then should not b enacted on the basis of the report of the Joint congressional fiscal committee? There should be (1) No repeal out4 right of the half-and-half law on the theory or in the belief that the joint ommittee's report abolishes it, or, on :he whole, recommends its unconditional abolition. (2) No repeal of the half-and-half law by rider on an appropriation bill fm proposed by such amendment in the last Congress. This amendment raised 'he issue between House and Senate which led to the creation of the joint ongressional committee. This issue was whether the half-and-half law was fair to the nation. The joint committee says it is fair. (3) No repeal of the half-and-half law in any way which fails to substitute for it a carefully considered sysn-hirh nistriot tavotlnn ic fixed and certain, and under which > ongress shall "pursue a deflnite pol:cy of regular and liberal appropriations" for capital maintenance and development. (4) This substituto for the half-andhalf law. if one is proposed, should be thoroughly discussed by the District committees and carefully considered by both houses of Congress, in order to bo certain that it protects the capital's equities and provides the jusl safeguards against excessive taxation which the half-and-half law provides; and without this thorough preliminary discussion and consideration nc repealing substitute should be enacted "To Be Fixed and Certain."' . The abolition of the organic act, if aucempllehed In accordance with the ~ ^Continued on Seventh Fasa.j h 'PLAZA HOUSING TO BE COMPLETED i j jEidlitz Tells Senators Plans Provide for 1,800 War i Work Girls. | . j WORDY TILT AT HEARING The Union station plaza housing project for woman war workers em| ployed by the government will be | completed and 1,800 women housed there, under the present plans of the housing bureau of the Department of , Labor. ' Otto M. Eidlitz, director of the I bureau, so advised the Senate public , buildings and grounds subcommittee, investigating the government housing : projects at the hearing yesterday afternoon. ! i Senator Reed of Missouri, chairman I of the investigating committee, sug- ; ' | gested that these buildings might be ! ' | turned Into hospitals for the return- j ' j ing wounded and sick soldiers. ^ Points to Hospital Delays. ' I "The government is asking Congress II for $26,000,000 with which to erect !; hospitals for the soldiers," he said. I "Wouldn't it be better to use these '! buildings on the Union station plaza than to have them wait a year to ! ' put up hospitals?" "Is it your purpose," asked Senator [ Hardwiek of Georgia, "to have the : government continue' this hotel proj | ect, which was a war project, in time ; of peace?" "We are not at peace yet," suggestJ i ed Mr. Eidlitz. I i "Well, some of us know the war is at an end if you don't," said Senator Hardwiek. Mr. Eidlitz admitted that other proj! ects had been halted because it was . j recognized that conditions had chang1 ed with the signing of the armistice. To Cost Above Two millions. L | i The construction of the Union Sta: tion plaza dormitories will cost $1,834,' 500, and it will cost $275,000 to furnish them, it was testified. Mr. Eidlitz estimated, after a series of questions, 1 that a saving of about $400,000 would > be made if the government stopped work on the dormitories immediately, : i taking a loss on the buildings, instead of going ahead and completing them jund renting them as planned. ! He estimated that the total expendijture for housing in the District of Co j junioia. uiiaer nit? picscm picms ui 111-3 j housing bureau would be about oneI third of the $10,000,000 appropriated last spring by Congress for that purj pose in the District. This would include the completion of the Union Station plaza project and throe projects for the Navy. IIr. Kidlitz pointed out that, a contract for a housing project at 23d and B streets, costing $2,212,300, had been canceled. That was to have housed about 3,000 government i ! workers. No "Cost-Plus" Contracts. Senator Hardwick wanted to know ! if any contracts were let under the j cost-plus plan. Mr. Kidlitz said "No," i and explained the mtfnner in which j I contracts were let, with a certain num- | . her of responsible persons bidding. The , . , maximum fee to the contractor, he said, was always fixed. ' In the Union Station plaza project,! i he told the committee, there are : twelve dormitory buildings, with two j wings each, practically twenty-four i buildings, each having 150 rooms, with a total accommodation for 1,800. There are pvo administration build! ings and cafeterias, a boiler house, a \ storehouse and laundry and a small infirmary. I "Is a church being built there, too, and a moving picture theater?" asked ' Senator Hardwick. He said he had been told so, and that in the Senate or House it had been asserted a moving picture theater was under way. No Church; No Theater. "There will be no church and no moving picture theater," replied Mr. Kidlitz. He said, however, that the second story of the administration building was to have a large assembly hall, and that moving pictures could be shown there if desired. This room will be about sixty by eight-five , i reel. Senator Hardwick again stated he ! heard it said in Congress a theater i i was to be built with this project. "If this bureau were responsible for i all the vagaries of Congress," replied Mr. Eidlitz, "it would have paresis." "One of the great things, it has been said."/ he continued, "is to keep ! these young women who have come to : work for the government during the : war oft' the streets. If this govern: ment can't afford a room in which for or five hundred of them can meet .j for a dance or some other kind of ' entertainment, then I don't know." ' | Mr. Eidlitz said that the storehouse on the project Was to be converted ! into a laundry, that it had been planned as a storehouse when the 23d and B streets project was planned, , i and was to have been used to store , | meats and. other edibles. After-Armistice Building1. Senator Reed wanted to know why ' work had been begun on one or two i of the buildings in this project even j after the armistice had been signed. I j Mr. Eidlitz said it was deemed necessary to complete all the buildings for the project. He told the committee that the station plaza project was SO per cent II completed today. Mr. Eidlitz said that the need of 1 proper housing facilities in the Dis' trict for government workers was , I still great; that if such need had : ceased to exist, he would say stop / ' ; work on the housing project. '! He said that Mr. Amer, who operates 1 a hotel in New Orleans, would oper- I 1 ate the Union station plaza project; j : that he was a do!lar-a-year man and i ' ready to contribute his services. He ! ' said that the price of the rooms and i | board had been fixed for the woman . war workers at $45 a month. Of this ! ' $20 was for two meals a day and ; three on Sunday, and $25 for rent. United States Not to Profit. There would be no profit to the government at these prices, Mr. Eidlitz said, but the government would be able to pay expenses and probably set aside enough to majse necessary repairs. The government would not get anv return on the investment at these figures. It would, however, he said, "house 1.S00 women in a decent way." Mr. Eidlitz 6aid that the war situation was not over, and that the government still needed its war workers I here. Many of them have been held here merely by the promise of the housing bureau that accommodations would be provided l'or them. It was a moral obligation of the government : to provide these accommodations, he : said^ ' "Don't you know that the clerks are | j leaving Washington to the number ef 1 tContiaued pa Peucth Fage.i ' 1 CLAIM PRESIDENTCLEARLY STATED HIS PEACE VIEWS l?% Hha4a Uim nn Ullll/ldlb UUUIC iiiiii uii League of Nations and Freedom of Seas. REGARDED MAJOR TOPICS BEFORE THE CONFEREES Asserted That English- Opinion Does Not Differ Widely From That of Mr. Wilson. Despite bis silence in recent weeks concerning the attitude he will take on two major topics for settlement at the peace conference?the project for a league of nations and a definition of the proposed "freedom of the seas"? friends of President Wilson in Washington hold that he has declared as specifically as possible in advance, to Congress and to the American people, his ideas on these two points. Administration officials are showing signs of being somewhat disturbed about the prevalent criticism, both on Capitol Hill and throughout the country, that the President has gone abroad without fully informing the people about the policies to which he will commit the United States. These critics are pointing to the open statements of British statesmen, such as those of Winston Churchill, munitions minister, made on Thursday; that of Arthur J. Balfour, made Friday, and the address which Lloyd George, England's premier, is to make shortly regarding peace terms. They - -1 **?- ^ - bnincr in Rharn cite tnese aeciaiununo ?.o ... .? , contrast to the President's silence. President's Attitude Explained. But it became known today the President's attitude is that he has enunciated the principles for which he stands, not only in the address before Congress last January S, which contained the much-discussed fourteen points, but in ether addresses dating back even before entry of the United States into the war. The President is understood to hold that nothing was to be gained by their reiteration on the eve of delicate negotiations. In connection with the two points mentioned the President's address to Congress January 22, 1917, was cited today. It is not believed that he has had reason to change the views expressed therein, though they were set forth before the entry of the United States into the war, and therefore that address is considered as a significant sidelight on the President's prtsent policy. In that address the President dealt at length with the league of nations plans and spoke at length on the freedom of the seas. His View of League of Nations. Concerning the league of nations, he said: "It is right that before it (peace) comes this government should frankly formulate the conditions upon which it would feel justified In asking our people to approve its formal and solemn adherence to a league of peace." A little further on the President stated: "Xo covenant of co-operative peace which doe^not include the peoples of the new world can suffice to keep the future safe against war; and yet there is only one sort of peace that the peoples of America can join in guaranteeing. Mere agreements may not make peace secure. It will bo absolutely necessary that a force be created as a guarantor of the permanency of the settlement so much greater than the force of any nation now engaged, or any alliance hitherto formed or projected, that no nation, no probable combination of nations, could face or .withstand it." In Line With Mr Balfour. In this same speech of nearly two years ago the President uttered a thought closely parallel with one expressed by Mr. Balfour in a statement yesterday. The President said: "Equality of territory or of resources there, of course, cannot be, nor any other sort of equality not gained in the ordinary peaceful and legitimate development of the peoples themselves." And yesterday Mr. Balfour stated: "It would be folly to imagine it possible to constitute a world endowed with equal powers and rights." And again, "I do not think the world car be made safe for democracy merely by multiplying the number of demo crani; sia-tcs. Declaration of Freedom of Seas. Even more explicit and interesting perhaps, in regard to the widespread discussion here and in England concerning the freedom of the seas was President Wilson's utterance on thai point. He said: "And the paths of the sea must alike in law and in fact be free. The freedom of the seas is the sine qua non of peace, equality and co-operation. No doubt a somewhat radical reconsideration of many of the rules of international practice hitherto thought to be established may be necessary in order to make the seas indeed free and common in practically all circumstances for the use of mankind, but the motive for such changes is convincing and compelling. There can be no trust or intimacy between the peoples of the world without them. The free, constant, unthreat(Continued on Eleventh Page.) Pershing Tells Story of Valor OfU. S. Troops The Star today prints on page 20 the full report of Gen. John J. Pershing, which, officially," tells the thrilling story of the valor of the American expeditionary force in France. Modestly, but with becoming pride in the intrepidity of American troops, Gen. Pershing relates this narrative of American operations in France, calculated to quicken the pulse of every American citizen. I . I MR. SCHWAB QUITS SHIP CORPORATION I Resignation Accepted, Wireless Message From President Wilson States. Charles M. Schwab, director gen! oral of the Emergency Fleet Corpora- I j tion. who laid aside his own sliip<! building plans eight months ago to help build ships for the government, i received word by wireless from Pres, ident Wilson last night that his res1 ignation had been accepted. It liad been understood here for some time that Mr. Schwab was anxious to be relieved of the office, so that he could again take up extensive interests he relinquished when asked to become the directing force of the country's war-time shipbuilding program, although it was not ' ! known that his resignation was placed In the hands of the President | before the letter's departure for Eu, rope. I Mr. Piez to Take Up Duties. Mr. Schwab was not in Washington ; last night, but it was stated that he would retiro at once and that Charles ! j Piez, vice president and general man, I ager of the Emergency Fleet Corpora! tion, would carry on the work exactly j as heretofore. [ President Wilson, in accepting the director general's resignation in a , message to the White House from the transport George Washington with instructions that it be conveyed to Mr. Schwab, said: '"I accept your resignation only be- 1 cause you wish it, and because I feel I must do so in fairness to you. You j have been exceedingly generous in i giving your services and they have : been invaluable. Want to thank you very cordially indeed Tor all that you , have done. Shall always remember it, i as I am sure all your associates in the ! government will, as a service of unu , sua! value anu aisuuvuuu. Praise From Mr. Colby. ' j Bainbrldge Colby, vico president of the United States Shipping Board, who has been closely associated with the director general, said that Mr. Schwab had rendered service of the greatest value, and had contrib: uted precisely what was expected of him. . "Mr. Schwab's retirement has cer': tain proprieties," Mr. Colby said, "because his work is done, and his busi!; ness affairs, which he cheerfully set aside last April, now require his untj divided attention. He leaves with the I warm appreciation and cordial good ; will of all who have watched the ! work that was set out to be done in j bringing tonnage up to the world's : requirements." Mr. Colby said that Mr. Schwab i made no changes in the organization , and that it would be carried on by 1 j Mr. Piez, whom he described as its strong undertone and a man in every i | way equipped to continue a branch :, of government service no less imj portant now than in war time. i INTERNATIONAL ISSUES DEVELOPED OVERSEAS 5 I . ; I Summary Includes Extradition of Former Kaiser and Fixing of War Indemnities. BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRKR. i < ahl?*irram to The Sunday Star and Chicago Dally >ew?. Copyright, 1918. i PARIS, France, December 7.?International issues that have developed this -week may be summarized as follows: 1?Extradition of the former kaiser. 2?Questions as to what indemnities the enemy shall pay and how. Both the French and English governments seem seriously to propose making : Germany pay the entire cost of the war. I 3?Exchange of note's between Eng: land and France over Damascus and I Aleppo, which both claim in the parI tition of Asia Minor. I 4?The desire of certain govermental elements in France to include the ! Sarre basin in Alsace-Lorraine and make the west bank of the Rhine an autonomous state. G?The question of the abrogation of the secret treaties made between the allies since the war began, some of which seem incompatible with the American peace program, which all the allies accepted. 6?The question of undertaking a sei rious campaign in Russia against the < bolsheviki. . 7?Questions of procedure at the forthcoming conference. n BRITAIN'S DAY. HEAVY SEAS THREATEN TO DELAY PRESIDENT r George Washington Plowing Through Squalls ant^ May Not Reach Brest Until Friday. ON BOARD THE U. S. S. GEORGE WASHINGTON, December 7 (by wireless to the Associated Press).?At the present rate of speed President Wilson will not land at Brest before Fri| day. Ho probably will reach Paris j Saturday. His conferences with the j French statesmen are expected to beI gin promptly Tuesday, after an ex| change of official visits. It was expected that the Azores would bo passed tomorrow, but J.he George Washington and her convoy of warships are plowing through one squall after another, which are heavy for the southern course. As a con I sequence the Azores "will not be I reached before Tuesday. The Fuperdreadnaught PennsylvaI nia is steaming more,, than a mile ! ahead of the President's ship. The | destroyers which make up the remainder of the convoy often are liid' den from sight in the valleys between the great rollers which are washing them so frequently that the crews scarcely can cling to the decks. The (George Washington, however, is keeping a comparatively steady course in the heavy sea and none of the official party has been seasick thus far. The President took a constitutional on deck after his morning's work, after which he again took part in a boat drill and then reared to liis suite for a nap. STREET MEETING ENDS ! IN SHOWER OF EGGS i | Women Who Attempt to Enlighten ! Avenue Crowds Finally Call for Police. ! Members of a party of women atj tempting to hold a meeting at a ] downtown Pennsylvania avenue corj ner last night were guests of honor ' at an impromptu food shower, j The contributions, from a more or ! less good-humored crowd of rather ) small proportions, were mostly in the ! form of eggs, many of which never ! would have passed inspection. At the close of the episode a statue which formed the background for the assemblage was liberally smeared with yellow, and the surrounding atmosphere was strongly reminiscent of the aroma that hangS about a hot sulphur spring. Speakers Had No Chance. Crowds always gather when anybody starts to orate in public, so as soon as the women began haranguing an audience was on hand. Most of | the members of the crowd must have : been at the victory sing, bringing away with them a Sort of "hang! over" of patriotism, because as soon as the women started talking the I crowd began singing "The Star ! Spangled Banner." Aa there were j more persons in the crowd than in I the group of women the speakers never had a chance. Then a party of soldiers began marching in double file around the statue at the base of which "the women stood. The soldiers were singing. too, but to the women it looked as if the boys in khaki meant mischief of some sort. So a hurry call was sent in for police protection. In a combined soldier and civilian "rush" for a souvenir of the occasion more or less disorder occurred, which gave the police a chance to get busy. Party Spoiled; Crowd Dissolved. Police activity spoiled the party and the crowd dissolved. But the women seized the opportunity and got oft their chests a lot of the things they had come out to talk about. Talking to half a hundred police reserves who aren't at all interested and who would much j rather be back at the station houses, ! however, is a hard job, us any one knows who has ever tried it. The lfomen soon "tirod of "telling it to a policeman," and, disgusted, streaked more or less with egg, went away. During the disorder two girls and two xuen were arrested. rr APPEAL TO HOUSE IN FISCAL QUESTION Citizens' Committee Urges Perusal of 1916 Report on Half-and-Half. The joint citizens* committee on the fiscal relation between the United States and the District of Columbia, representing the Board of Trade, the Chamber of Commerce and other principal civic organizations, "pf which Henry B. F. Macfarland is chairman, asks every member of the House before voting upon the practical abolition of the "half-and-half plan" in the District appropriation bill to read the report of'the joiht select committee of Congress, January, 1916, which, after prolonged inquiry, reached the "unanimous conclusion" "that the rate of taxation in the District of Columbia should be fixed and certain" and "that Congress should pursue a definite nol icy of regular and liberal appropriations." The joint citizens' committee believes that congressmen will not make a revolutionary change, upsetting the just fiscal relation provided by the organic act of 1878, until Congress shall have adopted "a definite * policy of regular and liberal appropriations." Full Hearing Should Be Held. This should be done onlv after full hearing and mature deliberation and Vy a separate bill and not in a paragraph el the aopropriition act. The action of the House appropriations committee was taken without notice or opportunity for hearing. The time before the vote is to be ta.?sn in the House is short, but the joint citizens' committee hope that public spirited citizens will exercise tl\3 right of petition by asking members of the House not to support such a radical recommendation, but to see, in the interest of the National Capital, that the present plan is maintained until full opportunity has been given for consideration and preparation of a just and adequate substitute. If the House, should pass the bill as reported, the joint citizens' committee will turn to the Senate, wrhicli, at the last session, defeated a similar attempt to destroy the "half-and-half plan." Have Faith in Congress. The committee believes in the justice of Congress and that it wjll not put upon the comparatively few people living in Washington more than 70 per cent of the burden of the maintenance and development of the common capital in which the whole country takes such pride and to which all Americans want to contribute. They believe that Congress will, in the language of its joint select committee, have "in view not only the permanent moral and physical advancement of the city, but also its pre-eminent beauty and grandeur as the municipal expression of the nation's home and its people's pride." CROWN PRINCE WARNED GEN. LUDENDORFF OF U. S. COPENHAGEN", December 7.?With reference to the interview with Frederick William, the former Germat crown prince, obtained by the Asso] elated Press, the Berlin papers saj that in a letter to a friend last March he declared that he had witnessed with great anxiety how Dudendorfl undervalued the power of the United States. The then crown prince, however, the papers continued, was without influence. He several times attempted to get^ a conference on important matters, but was prevented by Ludendorff. It was no secret in higher Berlir circles, the papers add, that there was a conflict between the emperor anc the crown prince. SENATOR GOING ABROAD. Owen of Oklahoma to Study European Banking Conditions. NEW YORK, December 7.?Senatoi Robert L. Owen of Oklahoma, chairman of the Senate committee or banking and currency, announced hi! intention here tonight to sail on Tuesday to study European banking conditions, visiting London, Paris, Madric and Rome. ne explained inai ins unaertaKlng was a private one. He will gathei information in connection with ?. bil before his committee for the creatior of a national foreign exchange banl with functions similar to those of th< Bank of England and the Bank ol France. I / SAYS U. S. DANGER IS UNEMPLOYMENT ' -* - ? ? ? t.ii_ N. A. smyin ieus neuuustruction Conference Next Four Months Critical. OUTDOOR JOBS FEW NOW NEW YORK, December 7.?Unemployment is the greatest danger confronting the United States during the next four months, the labor reconstruction conference of the Academy of Political Science was told at its meeting here today by Nathan A. Smith, assistant director general of j the United States employment service. Thousands of soldiers are being j discharged daily, ho said, at the bcj ginning of winter, when outdoor jobs i are few; war-time plants arc being ; closed because of Army cancellation , of contracts, and manufacturers are hesitant in employing more labor because of uncertainties of taxation, high prices of materials and "timidity" of credit. Emigration Seen as Help. Eventually, Mr. Smyth said, the ! problem of placing America's soldiers | and war workers will bo solved i through an abnormally high ernigra! tion of Europeans to their native j lands, the probability that immigration will continue to be slight, and ; especially by co-operation of Ameri ican agencies in connecting jobless j men with manless jobs, lie warned j the members of the conference, however, that these agencies could only enable men to find open Jons and : could not create work, i "Soldiers are being discharged by the thousands daily on the basis of military units, with no reference to whether or not they are now needed in industry." said Mr. Smyth. "They are being mus; tered out on a few days' notice and I given in money the cost of transports ; tion to their homes, free to buy tickets wherever they please. Already they are | turning up in the cities, improvident, j 'broke,' away from home without work, ' applicants for civilian relief. Many | others are unwilling to undertake the 'day labor jobs' which alone they can find. There is every prospect that unless remedial measures are promptly taken the sight of stranded, workless, : moneyless soldiers will be common throughout the land. More Workmen Than Jobs. i "The great danger in the coming four ! months is that there won't be jobs enough to go around; that unemployment will come with attendant misery i and social unrest at a time when anj archistic tendencies are contagious. ; "The remedy of building public I works is not available on a large scale until spring. The farms will not i call urgently for men until frost i thaws out. Chiefly must we look to ! our manufacturers to carry the burj den. But they are hesitant. Taxes ar? not yet determined. The cost of money is high and credit fSmid for a | while. The prices of raw material ! and labor are high. The producer j hopes they will fall, and manifests a j tendency to wait till they do. To meet ! each of these deterrent features is an j immediate national task." Mr. Smyth urged that the manufne! turer "get his wheels moving with j the utmost speed, even if there be a j remote chance of lower costs." Speak on iLabor and Wages. I Every effort must also be made, declared G. H. Siries, chairman of the j board of railroad wages and working i conditions of the United States Railj road Administration, to prevent a dei crease in wages which, he declared, would mean a lowering of living stand! ards. I The present wages of railroad worki ers, he said, while 50 per cent higher than heretofore, will not buy as much j as the former wages because prices I have increased 65 per cent. | "The forces of true democracy." will i resent any tendency to lower the standj ard of living, declared William F. Coj burn, director of the cost of living dej partment of the War Dabor Board. I "Democracy in the last analysis j means the right to choose one's stand: ard of living," he said, "and a higli or low standard of living means on j one hand death, destitution and a broi ken snirlt.. and on the other heallh. i comfort, courage and a spirit of inde! pendcnce." , ; Henry R. Seager, secretary of the | shipbuilding labor adjustment board. 1 urged the creation of a permanent industrial relations commission to promote efficient collective bargaining. The "certainty of industry," was the factor which made possible the high wages during the war, said G. .S. Arnold, member of the war labor policies board. Although this certainty has vanished with the close of 'the war and the cancellation of war contracts, he asserted, some means must be found to keep factories running and to maintain present living standards. ALLIEONATIONS7 HEADS TO PAY VISIT TO U. S. I Lauzanne Says President Wilson's Entertaine?Will Come Here in Return. i NEW YORK, December 7.?Tlx ' United States government wili hav< l as its guests in the near future Presi1 dent Poincare of Prance, King Georg< i ' of England, King Albert of Belgium 1! King Victor Emmanuel of Italy anc | the heads of any other nations Presi . dent Wilson may visit during his visi to Europe, Stephen E. Lausanne, edi ' tor of the Paris Matin, declared todaj ! just before he sailed for France. M i Lauzanne has been in the Unitec 1 States several months on an officla | mission. ; "It has been a diplomatic custon from time immemorial," M. Lauzanni said, "that the head of one govern ' ment who entertains the head of an other invariably repays the visit." While no official announcement o - plans has been made. M. Ltuzanne de clared it was certain President Poin care would come to the United State 1 within the next year, as his term o i office expires in 1920. No official an - ! nouncement of plans will be made, h i added, until President Wilson has ar 1 rived in France and visited the capi tais of the various nations. ; United States statesmen probabl; will have to brush up on precedent I and formalities lor .state occasions t Mr. Lausanne added, as the Unitej : States never has received the head o i a foreign government with the excep t tion of King Ka'.akaua of the Sand _lSich Islands. _ _ 1 ! PLOTTED TO BRING i U. S. ORGANIZATION TO GERMANY'S AID Bernstorff Hoped to Use Embargo Association to Cut Allies' War Supplies. CAin OCMATOD LHTPIjrnPV gniu OLivn i un niiunuuurx ! "AGREED TO CO-OPERATE*' Plan Attempted When Dernburg System BrokeDown Following; Sinking of Lnsitania. The efforts of Count von Bernstorff. former German ambassador to this country, to mako use of the American Kmbargo Association to aid Germany by stopping the shipment of arms and ammunition to the allies from the j United States were a feature of the evidence submitted yesterday afternoon to the Senate judiciary subcommittee investigating German propapanda by A. Bruce Bielaski of the Department of Justice. Letters and cablegrams were put into tho record showing that the propaganda system built up by i Bernard Dernburg, sent to this country to establish such a system, had broken down. The sinking of the Lusitania was largely responsible for the wrecking of this system, and Count von Bernstorff undertook to build up another, but in a "manner i which cannot hurt us if it becomes j known." Mr. Bielaski put into the I record a number of dispatches from j Bernstorff to the Berlin foreign office Hoped to Arouse Voters. I It was the hope of Bernstorff that ! through the embargo association sentiment among the voters would be -roused so as to compel legislative action putting an end to the ship ment of war supplies to the allies. One of the communications offered by Air. Bielaski and purporting to I liuvfl hpi?ti writ ton hv T\ Roiswitx ! German consul at Chicago, dealt with | a mass meeting of the association ! soon to be held, and said that among | those who had "agreed to eo-opj orate" were Senator Hitchcock of i Nebraska, chairman of the' Senate foreign relations committee; former Representative Ruchanan of Illinois, who was connected with Labor's National Peace Council; William Bayard Hale and Dr. Aked, a minister of Sau Francisco, i Another communication relating to ' j a meeting of the embargo associa: tion. and said to have been written i by G. M. Jacobs of Chicago, acting* j chairman, said that former Senator j Works of California and Senator I Smith of Georgia, as well as Senator i Hitchcock, supported the principled ! of the conference. / i Regarding Senator Hitchcock. Mr. Bielaski read a document, j signed by Senator Hitchcock, statin*. ! that the senator would do all in his power, both as a senator and as editor of the Omaha World-Herald, to bring about an embargo on arms. Iteiswitz's letter regarding the embargo association made this reference to Senator Hitchcock: "Hitchcock seemed to be very i strong for the plan. He told our rep| resentative at a conference in Oinaha 'If this matter is organized in th?right way you will-sweep the United States.' " Consul Reiswitz in a letter believed ' by the Department of Justice to have ! been written to Dr. Heinnerick F. Al! bert. a former German agent, outlined a plan for the acquisition of tin Wright airplane factory at Dayton, Ohio. | as a means of preventing tin- export of flying machines from the United StatesSought Press Association. > Mr. BielaskI also testified that to ! make provision for the dissemination ; of pro-German news to smaller newspapers that German agents contemplated the purchase of the American i Press Association, which furnished i matter in type to papers. I?ut ho said there was no evidence that the deal was carried through. In this conJ nection, the witness read an option, drawn up presumably by the agents ; of Albert, whereby the association was to "place its whole organization at the disposal of Albert in order t'? spread pro-German news and suppress anti-German news. t The option was to be valid between July 15 and October 15, 1915, and d^r ing that time Albert was to decid . whether he would purchase control o; the property for $900,000. I Documents Made Public. ] Late yesterday the State Department j made public the full text of the Be j storff documents read Into the con j mittee record by Mr. Bielaski. They j were taken from the mass of evidence j in the department's files disclosing i {German intrigue before and after th i United States entered the war. j The document relating to the ship j wreck of the Dernburg propaganda . | was dated November 1, 1915. and said I "As you will have learned from m: | previous report, we have, since th< Lusitania case, endeavored to wind up all the so-called German propa panda and especially to get rid of &U dubious individuals. I can now sa> with a good conscience that we ar?'no longer compromised. Some of th* "'old affairs still hang on, but we ar3 j more or less settled, although the: -1 will cause some future expenditures. & i Bealize Their Mistakes. [ ; "At the beginning: of the war mar things were undertaken by th" "l Dernburg pf-opaganda which wouh ' never have been undertaken if we - ! could have seen that the war would ! be so long, because nothing can fo: | long be kept secret in America. "Since the Lusitania case we have 1 strictly confined ourselves to 6ucb i ! propaganda as cannot hurt us If 1* I becomes known. The sole exception ' is. perhaps, the peace propaganda i ! which lias cost us the largest amount a hut which also has been tho raof. " . successful. - . -? ?i ? . v "Uatteriy, l nave uetn udiu^ w , Embargo Association and some e* ^ tircly reliable intermediaries. -, Uses University League. 3 ! "I have also made use of the Get t man University League, founded since - the war. This has done its best t<> e take the place of the German Assc-' ciation tword not decipherablei. - which has been of no use during the | war on account of its management. jr The league lias published, under my s collaboration, an excellent collection 1.1 of reports on the war which will be i: of great service to our cause, fi "The support which I have already . given the league Is entered in the first .! quarter's account, from 1918. 'tew ' ^Continued on Eleventh i'afeJ v